Canva's first image generation model, built with the Leonardo AI research team. Available in Canva's Dream Lab tab and the Canva API.
Canva's first in-house image generation model, a two-stage planner-generator trained on designs, output up to 2K.
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Canva Craft at a glance
- What is Canva Craft?
- Canva Craft is a model from Canva. Canva's first in-house image generation model, a two-stage planner-generator trained on designs, output up to 2K.
- Who makes Canva Craft?
- Canva Craft is made by Canva.
- Does Canva Craft work in the EU?
- Available in the EU. Reported as available to all Canva users in the Dream Lab tab, and Canva is generally offered in the EU; no EU-specific restriction is mentioned. The TechCrunch US-residents terms in the snippets concern the news site, not Canva. Last verified 14 Nov 2026.
- How much does Canva Craft cost?
- Freemium. Available to all Canva users in Dream Lab; specific usage limits and API pricing not stated in the provided material. Licence: Proprietary.
- Where was Canva Craft shown?
- In 1 creator video by Matt Wolfe. Most recently by Matt Wolfe on 23 Oct 2026, at 21:46 in “AI News: 24 Things You Need To Know This Week”.
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Canva Craft is an image generation model developed by Canva's research team, with contributions from researchers at Leonardo.ai, which Canva acquired in 2024. It was announced on 22 October 2026 as Canva's first own image model, positioned against models from Google, OpenAI, ByteDance and Meta.
The model works in two stages. First it interprets the prompt and builds a plan covering spatial relationships, relative scale, visual hierarchy and text content. Then it generates an image of up to 2K resolution in one of 30 aspect ratios. Canva says this yields accurate object details and legible text, and allows precise edits without altering other parts of the image. It was trained on human-designed templates from Canva's library (posters, social posts, presentations, infographics, menus, typography-heavy layouts) rather than photographs, and outputs can be converted into layered designs with Magic Layers.
Craft is available to all Canva users through the Dream Lab tab and will also be offered through the Canva API. Canva plans to support image generation in third-party chatbots such as ChatGPT and Gemini via its MCP. Two cheaper versions, Craftfast and Craft-ultrafast, are announced but not yet released. Weights are not published.
- Two-stage generation: layout/text planning, then image rendering
- Output up to 2K resolution in 30 aspect ratios
- Legible text rendering, trained on Canva design templates
- Localized edits without changing the rest of the image
- Output convertible to layered designs via Magic Layers
- Available in Canva Dream Lab and the Canva API
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